Central Government Departments

Indian Navy : Naval Hydrographic Department

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Introduction

The National Hydrographic Department stands on a foundation of centuries of maritime tradition and the centuries go back much beyond the colonial times into the distant past of India. While the Euro centric English Historians would argue that the first sailors were the Phoenicians of Asia Minor who sailed the Mediterranean in 2000 BC, What is called ‘Navigation’ today was referred to by the ancient Sanskrit word ‘Navgati’. The first cartographers of Indian waters were the sailor of Kutch in the present Indian state of Gujrat, who traded in the Arabian Sea rim, and the Chola sailors who helped to establish the benign empire of SriVijaya in present day Indonesia, in the 11th century AD.

The first Navigational chart anywhere was made in the 13th century. Its growth was spurred by the appearance of the magnetic compass in the following century. Quite like for the other parts of the World, the colonial era saw a spurt in charting activity in the Indian waters. The British East India Company chalked out an ambitious charting programme that stretched from the red Sea, around the Indian subcontinent through to the China Sea. In 1770 they found necessary to formally appoint a Hydrographer to the East India Company. In 1947 the empire of Hydrography was handed back as the Marine Survey of India headed by a Surveyor in Charge stationed at Calcutta. The office found its present home and form in 1954 when it was established at Dehradun with the appointment of Captain Jal Cursetji of the Indian Navy as the Chief Hydrographer. He later rose to become the Chief of Naval Staff. In recognition of the quality of work, the department was awarded ISO 9002 certificate in 1999.

The Department provides reliable and updated information for safety of navigation at sea under SOLAS regulations and for offshore development, projects of economic importance, through detailed surveys and research programmes. It interacts with various agencies at national/international levels in all related fields of Hydrography including Coastal Zone management, Environmental Protection and scientific quest at sea. India, as a leading maritime nation in the world, is constantly geared to meet the challenges ofthe future by expanding all facets of Hydrography.

THE OBJECTIVE OF NATIONAL HYDROGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT

Our corporate objective is to ensure total satisfaction of the customer needs for precise and accurate hydrographic and oceanographic products and service to the international & national agencies, duly updated by a reliable mechanism.

Today the department comprises of following :-

i. National Hydrographic Office at Dehradun
ii. National Hydrographic School at Goa
iii. Eight Modern Survey Ships
iv. Naval Chart Depots at Mumbai and Vishakapatnam
v. Hydrographic Survey Units at Mumbai (Bombay) and Kochi (Cochin)
vi. Network of Chart Agents Spread over the Country for Sale of Charts

The Activities at National Hydrographic Department include the following :-

i. Planing of Hydrographic Surveys
ii. Issue of directives to the Survey Ships
iii. Examination and Review of Data
iv. Chart Production
v. Archival of data and Custody of Historical Data
vi. Sale of products and Services
vii. Issue of Notices to Mariners and Navarea Warnings for Navarea VIII
viii. Project Surveys
ix. International Hydrographic Co-operation
x. Training

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